From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:10:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Update git-send-email-script with --compose Message-ID: <7vek832pbk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <46a038f905090513456d67842b@mail.gmail.com> Martin Langhoff writes: > It shows that I was never familiar with the practices of linux > hackers. I've always read the references to mboxes holding patchbombs > meaning literally one mbox file with a zillion contatenated patches > received via email. To be fair to you, it is _not_ the practices of Linux hackers. For one thing, I am not among them. I think it is perfectly reasonable to expect it to produce a single mailbox, like you expected. The primary reason why "format-patch --mbox" only does one file per patch is because I am too lazy to add a --single-mbox option which does the "right thing". This _could_ be "fixed", but on the other hand the current one file per patch behaviour is arguably more flexible than always creating a single mbox, and that is what I use as an excuse to justify my laziness ;-).